"No matter how many little steps he took towards it, when he finally made the leap of opening up the school someone would think it was too soon, think it was wrong," Relic shook his head lightly, crossing his arms casually just below his chest as he gazed out at the sea. There was no right way to go about this, no one way that would guarantee everyone would be happy and pleased that magic was on its way to acceptance.
He had to remind himself that she'd never known anything different and even if she hadn't been so young, it was still a scary situation to be thrust into.
"It was stupid to stop teaching magic," he agreed, "but it's easy for us to say that now. Who knows what we would have done if the decision was resting on our shoulders. And ... necromancy has always been a skeleton mages wish wasn't in their closet. I've never heard tell of it being taught, but perhaps it was at some point.
"It's rare in the first place and even before all magic became taboo, necromancy was. When things went bad, I think it was just like everyone's worst nightmare come to life, and fear and panic won out over rational thought." Which was sadly common when it came to human nature, he thought.